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by deanebarker 3y ago
> I especially despised the end a line with two or more invisible characters to insert a line break. I love Markdown, but I also hate this. The only benefit is that is discourages people from messing with line breaks.
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by deanebarker 3y ago
>A single canonical reference https://commonmark.org/
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by deanebarker 3y ago
It went to read-only status before going down, so I assume it's a planned maintenance event.
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Ask HN: How can someone develop the skill of explaining things?
4 points by deanebarker 3y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: How can I enable a dumber phone to carry sometimes?
3 points by deanebarker 4y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: What's the best software for screencast production on Windows?
3 points by deanebarker 4y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: How do you make sure all your batch jobs ran?
1 points by deanebarker 4y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What is the successor to HTML Applications (.hta)?
3 points by deanebarker 4y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: What can I do about my declining typing ability as I age?
38 points by deanebarker 4y ago|44 comments
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by deanebarker 4y ago
Before I read your book, I thought, "I know all about search!" After I read it... "...I knew NOTHING about search." No book has ever knocked me off my pedestal so brutally and so thoroughly.
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by deanebarker 4y ago
Agreed. I use both apps simultaneously (I have them both open right now). Admittedly, Teams uses a lot more RAM, but I have a lot of RAM. I would never know this unless I checked it.
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by deanebarker 4y ago
Seconded. Great, great book.
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Ask HN: For one-way publishing websites, are JavaScript UI frameworks helpful?
1 points by deanebarker 4y ago|2 comments
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by deanebarker 4y ago
>Now there's an opportunity for a startup. Make the process paperless. There's some precedent: the enterprise content management company Documentum was started as "DocPharma" -- a software system specifically design t
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by deanebarker 4y ago
Question: at what point does "specializing" in one or the other make you not a "full stack" developer anymore? I can technically do about everything on the web, I'm just really bad at front-end, and really good at b
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by deanebarker 5y ago
https://deanebarker.net/
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by deanebarker 5y ago
No, it's been around for about a week now.
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by deanebarker 5y ago
I'm not a prepper, but I have some supplies. I think it's pretty responsible to have a 30-day supply of water and preservable food in the house. Rice, beans, water, propane stove. Nothing major, but I could shelter in place for a
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by deanebarker 5y ago
I wish I had avoided debt better. In my 30s, I had enough money and credit to do stupid things, and I was still pretty materialistic, so everything looked good. My 40s were sobering. Got debt-free by about 48. Now 50.
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by deanebarker 5y ago
I thought the same thing. I'm not sure if NW is entirely unbiased anymore.
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by deanebarker 5y ago
Learn how to cook from simple ingredients. I probably cut my food spending by 65% by learning how to make some simple things.
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by deanebarker 5y ago
This is exactly what I was thinking. I read that page, and at the end, I thought "...so HTML then?"
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by deanebarker 5y ago
I saw an intranet once that took this to the extreme. If a page went 30 days past expiration, it would only show a preview, then say something like: "Only Bob Jones knows the rest of this story. Call him at x1234 to ask him about it.&q
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by deanebarker 5y ago
Yeah, I think you want a dedicated RSS client.
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Ask HN: What do you call “scriptable” software?
10 points by deanebarker 5y ago|9 comments
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by deanebarker 5y ago
>Well, LastPass is zero-knowledge How about 1Password?
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by deanebarker 5y ago
>the password file I use the online version. There's a browser plugin.
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Ask HN: How do password managers make things better?
18 points by deanebarker 5y ago|41 comments
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by deanebarker 5y ago
For Ajax-y stuff, I am really excited by the new crop of "HTML-as-a-Service" or "HTML-over-the-wire." https://htmx.org/ https://hotwired.dev/
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by deanebarker 5y ago
No, you don't. I work for an enterprise software company that built on .NET for 20 years. We just upgraded the codebase to .NET 5, and all future deployments will be on Linux.

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